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Has anyone ever noticed how it seems wordsmiths are at work when writing the subject lines of spam nowadays. I assume it is party due to ever better mail filtering software that the spamers seem to use more and more obscure language in the e-mail headers. One I received recently reads 'unextinctness further'. Any explanations or other examples?
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Spammers are trying to use language that could be by combining morphemes at random and the resulting words into phrases, the better to defeat bayesian filters that many of us use to put spam in its rightful place, the trashcan. It works to a degree.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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bayesian filters
Whuzzat?
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Article on bayesian filtering.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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That is a thoroughly interesting article. It raises the spectre of allowing someone else to determine which words in my messages are most likely Spam words -- e.g. if I wrote a lot of e-mail about Viagra or about refinancing -- and that disconcerts.
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I've had the misfortune to have several of my daily mailings flagged as spam by ~cop or ~assassin for containing words that merely contain possibly offensive *memes. also, I once was flagged for including the word "God" in a citation from one of William F. Buckley's books.
I don't think I'd use the word assassin in a mailing, even were I to find a *really obscure term for assassin in the OED.
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Father: Aren't you going to get after tsu for the tilde
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Quote:
Father: Aren't you going to get after tsu for the tilde
I volunteer!
Which do you think is better Re: Odd spam languageassassin or Re: Odd spam languagecop?
While we're at it what's *meme and *really about?
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I guess for anyone who sets out to deliberately misunderstand, anything's possible. For the rest of us the tilde clearly acts as a stand-in for the key phrase under discussion (in this instance 'spam').
*This is a local convention used in a semi-jocular shorthand for italicisation or other vocal emphasis. Every speech community accretes its own slang and customs. What can I say? - get over it. [/shrug]
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or,
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*see?
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